US destroyer has ballistic missiles fired toward it, after responding to attack on commercial tanker

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Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.

The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.

The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.

“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.

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I won't read Chompsky because I know the importance of words

The dude thinks the USA invented propaganda and no other country uses it

Apparently not.

And no they didn't, propaganda is much older than England let alone the US and we're certainly not the only ones to use it but way to prove that lack of critical thinking.

I believe you misread my comment, I said that Chomsky seems to believe the US invented propaganda